bojan

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by bojan 3d ago
Commodore 64 was by default in overwrite mode. When I switched to PC being in insert mode took some getting used to.
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by bojan 10d ago
> Deep down, we're an annoyingly arrogant little country with delusions of grandeur salivating at the thought to prove to our EU neighbors how strong we meant it when we said we would accept to oppose the US in case of military atta
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by bojan 11d ago
From the website: "Your repos never leave the EU" That's clear enough I think.
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by bojan 14d ago
Yes. There are all kinds of edge cases. The point I tried to make is that with the system we have here it's much less of a hassle to prove you're eligible to vote. The system wants you to be able to vote, and to be able to do th
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by bojan 14d ago
You can do all that with a driving license, but a driving license is not a proof of citizenship and thus of your eligibility to vote. In Europe, you can't get a regular ID without being a citizen. So having an ID automatically means yo
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by bojan 17d ago
The last concrete attempt was blocked at Dutch and French referenda, not the lobbyists. That was in 2004. Since then, basically any referendum about anything related to the EU anywhere returns a negative result, with a couple of small excep
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by bojan 18d ago
There are obscene amounts of money involved in financing anti-EU marketing. The European unity is a thorn in the eyes of Russia, the US and China. A (reasonably) united Europe is the fourth major player on the global scene. 27 individual st
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MyŠkoda Public API(public.api.connect.skoda-auto.cz)
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by bojan 20d ago
> Why are you submitting the code to the git repo like that, with all the wrong text? According to my enterprise architect I shouldn't be reviewing code, it's a waste of time in this new reality. I'm still doing it because
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by bojan 1mo ago
The problem is people losing bandwidth money to AI scrapers.
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by bojan 1mo ago
That's a very large question. I'll keep the answer as short as I can: * politically, we have a unified economic policy that is working wonders. The Brussels Effect is a thing. But, we don't have a unified foreign and defence
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by bojan 1mo ago
Which is why I still think that the only way forward is that the EU becomes a country of its own. I'm aware that's deeply unpopular, partially due to The forrogn influence, but thr alternative is catastrophic - stagnation and lett
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by bojan 1mo ago
The Chinese leadership realized one doesn't exclude the other. Also, a leadership that is so enormously autocratic simply has to juggle fewer balls at the same time.
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by bojan 2mo ago
> Although, even then, my PM (!) used Claude to boost the efficiency of one of our more complex Postgres queries by up to 5x Would you be kind to describe what test set-up do you have that a PM felt safe enough to deploy the changed que
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by bojan 2mo ago
Good luck to that non-programmer person when support tickets start coming in.
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by bojan 2mo ago
Not the EU, but I once accidentally entered Switzerland in the Zürich airport. The passport counter was unmanned and the doorway next to it was open, so I assumed there is another checkpoint somewhere further. When a guy started chasing aft
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by bojan 2mo ago
Russia's goal is direct annexation of about quarter of the Ukrainian territory and installing a lifelong puppet regime to control the other three quarters. Ukrainians stand to lose not just their voice and any semblance of economic pro
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by bojan 2mo ago
> It seems quite premature to say that. We're 3 to 4 years into the LLM revolution and the rate of progress is still impressive. When we were 3 to 4 years into mobile phone revolution it was already abundantly clear that it's c
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by bojan 2mo ago
The toys are the problem because there are so many being imported they can't possibly control them all. And if the EU tries to do something structural about it the backlash is enormous - look at that 3 euro fee for packages for example
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by bojan 2mo ago
Obviously not.
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by bojan 2mo ago
What an odd comment. I'd think it's obvious I referred to the current wave that started 15* years ago. * give or take some years
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by bojan 2mo ago
I wonder if this is the reason Spain resisted the advent of far right for so long, compared to its European counterparts.
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by bojan 2mo ago
No. But I got time to clean some technical debt that I for ages ea wanted to do. I could have chosen not to do anything in that time. I can now write software quicker in most of the cases, but the rest of the organization moves as slowly as
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by bojan 2mo ago
> I recently sat in on a lecture at my old uni and noticed almost every student heavily using ai. But are they also paying for it? Or simply using the free version because it's available?
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by bojan 2mo ago
The LLM might change the economy of this, but I doubt it. I tend to believe that the engineering culture you describe will end up producing similar or, as Joel postulates, an even worse result, just dressed up in a modern stack. If the tech
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by bojan 3mo ago
Wait until those prices start propagating to mass consumer products.
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by bojan 3mo ago
> and that got me thinking that there's potentially a different type of gambling app that ignores the money and is more of a social/prediction-making platform We have that in the Netherlands and we do it massively for every Wor
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by bojan 3mo ago
The acknowledgement is in the PR description, section "The design, and what it's based on".
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by bojan 3mo ago
Same here. I'll be in a market soon and I had my eyes on a VW i4 or a Škoda Enyaq, but this makes me seriously reconsider. I really wanted to support local industry and buy a European product this time, but they are making it seriousl
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by bojan 3mo ago
People do need to eat, but over 80% of the Dutch agricultural produce is being exported. Also, good portion of it isn't even meant for human consumption. Think flowers or cattle feed. This is not about feeding the population or about s

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